WORLD AT WAR: 7.24.21 - Americans Don’t Realize That Each New Day Brings Us A Little Bit Closer To War

Most Americans Don’t Realize That Each New Day Brings Us A Little Bit Closer To War - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/most-americans-dont-realize-that-each-new-day-brings-us-a-little-bit-closer-to-war/ While most Americans remain in a deep state of slumber, global events are moving us a little bit closer to military conflict with each passing day. U.S. relations with Chinaare rapidly going down the tubes, and this is something that should greatly concern all of us, because it has very serious implications for our future. Personally, this is an issue that I have been focusing on for a very long time. Many years ago when I workedas an attorney, I would often have conversations about the state of the world with those that I worked with, and when China would come up I would warn that someday the U.S. and China would be bitter adversaries. At the time, what I was saying didn’t seem tomake sense to a lot of people, but I understood where global trends were taking us. Like most of the things that I write about, I knew that it wouldn’t happen right away, but now we have reached a point where U.S. relations with China are the worst that theyhave been since the Korean War. On Monday, there was breaking news about a huge international scandal involving China, but it didn’t get that much coverage from the corporate media. According to NPR, the Biden administration announced that it is formally blaming the Chinese government for a large scale cyberattack on Microsoft… The White House is publicly blaming China for an attack on Microsoft’s Exchange email server software that compromised tens of thousands of computers worldwide, allowinghackers to gain access to troves of sensitive data. Separately, the Department of Justice announced Monday that a federal grand jury in May had indicted Chinese nationals accused of working with official sanction from Beijingto break into computer systems belonging to U.S. companies, universities and governments. This wasn’t just some random State Department official making speculative comments about who may be responsible. This is the official position of the White House, and anumber of other governments around the world joined the Biden administration in placing the blame on China… In a coordinated announcement, the White House and governments in Europe and Asia identified China’s Ministry of State Security, the sprawling and secretive civilian intelligenceagency, with using “criminal contract hackers” to conduct a range of destabilizing activities around the world for personal profit, including the Microsoft hack. A cyberattack of this magnitude is an act of war, and we are being told that sensitive systems all over the country were compromised… The cyberattack on Microsoft, which is believed to have begun in January, reportedly injected computers with malware that secretly monitored systems belonging to small businesses,local and state governments and some military contractors. As part of the attack, an unidentified American company was also hit with a high-dollar ransom demand, according to a senior Biden administration official. This represents a dramatic escalation by the Chinese, and the Biden administration crossed a major threshold by formally pointing a finger at China. There is no going back to the days when the U.S. and China were “friends”. Way too many bridges have been burned, and now an act of war has been committed. The good news is that at least we aren’t shooting at one another yet, but that could change. China has repeatedly threatened to invade Taiwan if independence is declared,and if that happens the U.S. military would get involved. Many Americans can’t even find Taiwan on a blank map of the world, but the truth is that it could easily spark a major military conflict. If you don’t want to take my wordfor it, just consider what some national security experts are saying… A clear and troubling consensus has emerged in the American national security community that the Taiwan Strait is the most likely place for a major war to erupt betweenthe United States and China; that it might start soon, and that such a conflict might quickly escalate into a nuclear confrontation. In March, the leading foreign policy organization in the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, issued a report concluding that Taiwan has become “themost dangerous flashpoint in the world.” There, a unique and troubling set of geopolitical developments have conspired to make a shooting war between the People’s Republic of China and the United States more likely than ever before. Recently the newly appointedcommander of U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific Region, Admiral John Aquilino, remarked that a possible invasion of Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) “is much closer than we think.” For such a long time I have been warning that this was coming, and now it is becoming a reality. Recently, the Japanese government also publicly warned that the Chinese could soon invade Taiwan, and the Chinese responded very angrily. In fact, a video channel that has “close ties to the People’s Liberation Army” released a video which had such harsh words for Japan that it made headlines all over the globe… “When we liberate Taiwan, if Japan dares to intervene by force – even if it only deploys one soldier, one plane or one ship – we will not only return fire but also wagefull-scale war against Japan itself.” Can you imagine the uproar that would happen if the Biden administration said something like that? In the video, Japan was also threatened with nuclear war… In the new video now deleted, a narrator said: “We will use nuclear bombs first. We will use nuclear bombs continuously. “We will do this until Japan declares unconditional surrender for the second time.” The video has now been taken down, but it should be unthinkable to say such things. Unfortunately, these are the times in which we live. Here in the United States, members of Congress from both parties are trying to get increasingly tough on China, and Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland is of particular concern… The push to drain China’s influence from the U.S. economy has reached America’s farm country, as congressional lawmakers from both parties are looking at measures to crackdown on foreign purchases of prime agricultural real estate. House lawmakers recently advanced legislation to that effect, warning that China’s presence in the American food system poses a national security risk. And key Senate lawmakershave already shown interest in efforts to keep American farms in American hands. In recent years, the Chinese have been buying up thousands upon thousands of acres of prime farmland, and their holdings are now valued at approximately 1.9 billion dollars… Chinese firms have expanded their presence in American agriculture over the last decade by snapping up farmland and purchasing major agribusinesses, like pork processinggiant Smithfield Foods. By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department. Hopefully Congress will step up and do something. Of course if that happens, the Chinese government will almost certainly retaliate against U.S. companies in China. Most Americans simply do not understand how bad things have gotten. Our relations with China have been deteriorating for years, and now we have officially reached a crisispoint. Unfortunately, it appears that relations between our two nations will continue to fall apart in the months ahead, and at this point everyone should be able to see whereall of this is eventually leading. As always, let us hope for the best, but let us also get prepared for the worst. To many people, any sort of open conflict between the U.S. and China is absolutely unthinkable, because the consequences of such a conflict would be too horrific for words. ------------------------------------------------------ Is Hamas now firing rockets from Lebanon? � Yaakov Lappin � https://www.jns.org/why-is-hamas-now-firing-rockets-from-lebanon/ Seeking to avoid drawing Israeli firepower south towards Gaza, which is deep in recovery mode, Hamas is looking for new avenues to promote an �equation�; Hezbollah to thenorth announced the equation, and Iraqi militias and the Houthis have pledged allegiance to it. The two Grad rockets launched at northern Israel early on Tuesday from southern Lebanon were likely fired by Hamas as part of its attempt to respond to tensions in Jerusalemand clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians around the Temple Mount on Sunday. The Iron Dome air-defense system intercepted one projectile and a second fell in an open area, causing no injuries or damages. Warning sirens went off in border areas ofnorthern Israel, and the Israel Defense Forces responded with artillery fire, firing about 12 shells into Lebanese territory. The Lebanese Armed Forces found a third rocket, which was not launched, south of Tyre. �Hamas looked for a response to the Temple Mount tensions, but it isn�t interested in firing from Gaza. Hence, it was easier to do this from Lebanon�with Hezbollah�s coordination,� said Maj. (res.) Tal Beeri, director of the research department at the Alma research center, who analyzes security threats to Israel emanating from Syria and Lebanon. According to Beeri, a former IDF intelligence officer specializing in the Lebanese and Syrian arenas, Hamas chose to fire from Lebanon for a number of reasons. The first is that it has not been able to recover from the May conflict with Israel and did not want to draw Israeli fire towards Gaza. Hamas correctly assessed that Israel�sretaliation in Lebanon would be significantly smaller in scale than in Gaza, said Beeri. A broader strategic consideration is Hamas�s desire to implement, albeit symbolically, a new �equation,� announced by Hezbollah, according to which any perceived Israelioffensive activity near the Temple Mount will be answered with attacks. Beeri noted that in recent weeks, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias and Houthis in Yemen have pledged their allegiance to this same equation. The Iraqi Qataib Hezbollah militia announced that it had joined the �regional equation� in June in the latest sign of a coordinated Iranian-led axis of radical entitiesoperating against Israel. Hamas in Gaza and Hamas in Lebanon tightly coordinate their activities, mainly through the terror organization�s headquarters in Turkey, according to Beeri. A branch of that headquarters, known as the �Construction Bureau,� is responsible for arming Hamas in Lebanon and ensuring that it has its own ability to activate weaponry. It appears as if Hamas�s gamble was well-calculated, judging by Israel�s restrained reaction. Israel also seems reluctant to respond more forcefully in Lebanon at a timewhen the country is experiencing severe economic and humanitarian crises�basically, sitting at the brink of collapse. Addressing the rocket attacks from Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz stated that Israel �has an interest in a stable, economically prosperous Lebanon. Unfortunately,the situation in Lebanon is deteriorating, and Hezbollah and other terror organizations are working against the interests of the Lebanese people. We responded last night, and we will continue to respond in the right time and place against any violation ofIsraeli sovereignty.� He added that Lebanon is responsible for what occurs in its territory. �We outstretched a hand to Lebanon and offered it humanitarian assistance,� said Gantz. �That same outstretched hand is also a steel fist that will respond against any aggression.� ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM